“When a substance is the conductor of the third or neutralizing force, it is called ‘NITROGEN,’ and, like the NITROGEN of chemistry, it is designated by the letter N. Fragments: Five

In addition I was very interested in the names of the elements: “carbon,” “oxygen,” “NITROGEN,” and “hydrogen.” I must here remark that although G. had definitely promised to explain precisely why these names were taken and not others, he never did so. Later on I shall return once again to these names. Attempts to establish the origin of these names explained to me a great deal concerning the whole of G.’s system as well as its history. Fragments: Five

“The note la will be the conductor of the neutralizing force designated by the number 3, and the matter in which sounds the note la will be ‘NITROGEN’ (N). Fragments: Nine

“In the order of the action of the forces they will stand in the succession 1, 2, 3, that is, corresponding to the matters ‘carbon,’ ‘oxygen,’ ‘NITROGEN.’ But by density of matter they will stand in the order: ‘carbon,’ ‘NITROGEN,’ ‘oxygen,’ that is, 1, 3, 2, because ‘NITROGEN’ by retaining the number 3, that is to say, by being the conductor of the neutralizing force, stands by its density of matter between ‘carbon’ and ‘oxygen,’ and ‘oxygen’ appears as the densest of the three. Fragments: Nine

“‘Carbon,’ ‘oxygen,’ and ‘NITROGEN’ together will give matter of the fourth order, or ‘hydrogen’ (H), whose density we will designate by the number 6 (as the sum of 1, 2, 3), that is, H6: The first triad Fragments: Nine

“C, O, N retain their numbers 1, 2, 3. ‘Carbon’ is always 1, ‘oxygen’ is always 2, and ‘NITROGEN’ is always 3. Fragments: Nine

“But being more active than ‘oxygen’ ‘NITROGEN’ enters as the active principle in the next triad and enters with the density of 2. In other words ‘NITROGEN’ has a density of 2 and ‘oxygen’ a density of 3. Fragments: Nine

“So that the note la of the first triad is the conductor of the active force in the next triad which it enters with the density of 2. If ‘carbon’ enters with the density of 2, then ‘oxygen’ and ‘NITROGEN’ must correspond to it in densities, repeating the ratio of densities of the first triad. In the first triad the ratio of densities was 1, 2, 3; in the second triad it should be 2, 4, 6, that is, ‘carbon’ of the second triad will possess the density of 2, ‘NITROGEN’ a density of 4, ‘oxygen’ a density of 6. Taken together they will give ‘hydrogen’ 12 (H12): The second triad Fragments: Nine

“According to the same plan and order the following triad will be constructed: fa, ‘shock,’ mi. ‘Carbon’ which was ‘NITROGEN’ in the second triad enters with a density of 4; the ‘NITROGEN’ and ‘oxygen’ corresponding to it must have a density of 8 and 12; together they will give ‘hydrogen’ 24 (H24): Fragments: Nine

“‘Hydrogen’ 12 corresponds to the ‘hydrogen’ of chemistry (atomic weight 1). ‘Carbon,’ ‘NITROGEN,’ and ‘oxygen’ (of chemistry) have the atomic weights: 12, 14, and 16. Fragments: Nine

‘Re 384 which becomes ‘oxygen’ in the next triad meets with ‘carbon’ 96 in the organism and together with it produces a new ‘NITROGEN’ 192 which is the note mi 192. Fragments: Nine

“At the given place in the organism “where mi 192 ought, apparently, to come to a stop there enters the ‘second food’ — air, in the form of do 192, that is, mi, re, do of the second cosmic octave of radiations. The note do possesses all the necessary semitones, that is, all the energy necessary for the transition to the next note, and it gives as it were a part of its energy to the note mi which has the same density as itself. The energy of do gives mi 192 force enough, while uniting with ‘carbon’ 48 already in the organism, to pass into ‘NITROGEN’ 96. ‘Nitrogen’ 96 will be the note fa. Fragments: Nine

“Fa 96 by uniting with ‘carbon’ 24 present in the organism passes into ‘NITROGEN’ 48 — the note sol. Fragments: Nine

“The note sol 48 by uniting with ‘carbon’ 12 present in the organism passes into ‘NITROGEN’ 24 — la 24. Fragments: Nine

“La 24 unites with ‘carbon’ 6 present in the organism and is transformed into ‘NITROGEN’ 12, or si 12. Si 12 is the highest substance produced in the organism from physical food with the help of the ‘additional shock’ obtained from the air. Fragments: Nine

But I was unable to grasp the principle on the basis of which it would be possible to determine exactly when to make use of such a scale. P. showed me a table made up to the fifth scale and relating to parallel levels in different worlds. But I got nothing from it. I began to think whether it was not possible to unite all these various scales with the various cosmoses. And having dwelt on this thought I went in an absolutely wrong direction because the cosmoses of course had no relation whatever to the division of the scale. It seemed to me at the same time that I had in general ceased to understand anything in the “three octaves of radiations” from which the first scale of “hydrogens” was deduced. The principal stumbling block here was the relation of the three forces 1, 2, 3 and 1, 3, 2 and the relations between “carbon,” “oxygen,” and “NITROGEN.” Fragments: Thirteen

“Each complete ‘hydrogen’ is composed of ‘carbon,’ ‘oxygen,’ and ‘NITROGEN.’ Now take the last ‘hydrogen’ of the third scale, ‘hydrogen’ 3072. This ‘hydrogen’ is composed of ‘carbon’ 512, ‘oxygen’ 1536, and ‘NITROGEN’ 1024. Fragments: Sixteen

“Now further: ‘Nitrogen’ becomes ‘carbon’ for the next triad, but there is no ‘oxygen’ for it and no ‘NITROGEN.’ Therefore by condensation it becomes itself ‘hydrogen’ 6144, but it is a dead hydrogen without any possibility of passing into anything further, a ‘hydrogen’ without the Holy Ghost.” Fragments: Sixteen